With pip package manager:
pip install pref_voting
Online documentation is available at https://pref-voting.readthedocs.io.
A profile (of linear orders over the candidates) is created by initializing a Profile
class object. Simply provide a list of rankings (each ranking is a tuple of numbers) and a list giving the number of voters with each ranking:
from pref_voting.profiles import Profile
rankings = [
(0, 1, 2, 3),
(2, 3, 1, 0),
(3, 1, 2, 0),
(1, 2, 0, 3),
(1, 3, 2, 0)]
rcounts = [5, 3, 2, 4, 3]
prof = Profile(rankings, rcounts=rcounts)
The function generate_profile
is used to generate a profile for a given number of candidates and voters:
from pref_voting.generate_profiles import generate_profile
# generate a profile using the Impartial Culture probability model
prof = generate_profile(3, 4) # prof is a Profile object
# generate a profile using the Impartial Anonymous Culture probability model
prof = generate_profile(3, 4, probmod = "IAC") # prof is a Profile object
To use one of the many voting methods, import the function from pref_voting.voting_methods
and apply it to the profile:
from pref_voting.generate_profiles import generate_profile
from pref_voting.voting_methods import *
prof = generate_profile(3, 4)
split_cycle(prof) # returns the sorted list of winning candidates
split_cycle.display(prof) # display the winning candidates
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